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US 12,392,060 B2Granted
Auxetic article
Assigneeadidas AG
InventorsTom O'Haire, Martha Rachel Glazzard
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Abstract
The application relates to a knitted textile for an article of apparel or footwear having (a) a first portion, which is auxetic; (b) a second portion, which is non-auxetic, and wherein the second portion is adjacent to the first portion.
Claims22
A knitted textile for an article of apparel or footwear, comprising:
- a first portion which is auxetic and has a first knit pattern of stitches formed in a first plurality of rows, the first portion defining a first textile area, wherein the first portion being auxetic is configured to stretch in a first direction and expand along a second direction essentially perpendicular to the first direction;
- and
- a second portion which is non-auxetic and has a second knit pattern of stitches formed in a second plurality of rows, the second portion defining a second textile area, the second knit pattern of stitches being different than the first knit pattern of stitches,
- wherein the second textile area is positioned adjacent the first textile area and is knitted to the first textile area to control stretch properties of the knitted textile.
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A knitted textile for an article of apparel or footwear, comprising:
- a first portion being auxetic with a first knit pattern of stitches formed in a plurality of rows, the plurality of rows extending in a wale direction, the first knit pattern of stitches defining at least one protruding element and at least one flat element;
- and
- a second portion being non-auxetic with a second knit pattern of stitches different from the first knit pattern of stitches, and
- wherein the second portion is positioned adjacent to the first portion and knitted to the first portion, wherein the first portion is configured to be stretched along the wale direction to control stretch properties of the knitted textile.
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A knitted textile comprising:
- a first auxetic portion having a first knit pattern of stitches formed of a plurality of rows, the first auxetic portion extending in a wale direction;
- and
- a second non-auxetic portion having a second knit pattern of stitches different from the first knit pattern of stitches, and
- wherein the first auxetic portion is configured to be stretched along the wale direction and expand along a second direction essentially perpendicular to the wale direction,
- wherein the second non-auxetic portion is positioned adjacent to and is joined to the first portion to control stretch properties of the knitted textile.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.